On 05/16/2014 09:20 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com <mailto:j...@commandprompt.com>> wrote: At a minimum: Check to see if there is going to be a permission error BEFORE the base backup begins: starting basebackup: checking perms: ERROR no access to pg_hba.conf~ base backup will fail That's pretty much what it does if you enable progress meter. I realize you don't necessarily want that one, but we could have a switch that still tells the server to measure the size, but not actually print the output? While it costs a bit of overhead to do that, that's certainly something that's a lot more safe than ignoring errors.
That seems reasonable. JD -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
